netdev - Re: [PATCH] decnet: remove macro-local declarations

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Message-Id: <20151107.131834.2152455608881468661.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 07 Nov 2015 13:18:34 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia.lawall@...6.fr
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-decnet-user@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lkp@...el.com,
	roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, rshearma@...cade.com,
	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] decnet: remove macro-local declarations

From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:57:34 +0100 (CET)

>> > Would it be preferable to remove the macro entirely and inline the for
>> > loop header?
>>
>> Could you show me an example of how this would look exactly?
> 
> One possible solution is below.  I moved the initialization of the nh
> pointer inside the loop to reduce the size of the loop header.  One could
> also inline fi->fib_nh[nhsel] where it occurs, but it seemed that that
> would make quite long expressions.

Personally I like the explicit named iterator.  It is descriptive and
tells that we are walking over all of the nexthops for a route.
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